Legal Opinion

Hoitt v. Skinner

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 19, 1896PublishedCited by 35 opinions

Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. A. Van Wagenen, Judge. On the first day of September, 1894, the plaintiff took a personal judgment by default upon certain promissory notes and a decree of foreclosure upon a certain mortgage against the defendants E. W. Skinner, John Hornick, and the Interstate Investment Company, for eighteen thousand, eight hundred and six dollars and twenty-two cents, and two hundred and twenty-eight dollars attorney’s fee, and ten dollars and…

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Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. A. Van Wagenen, Judge. On the first day of September, 1894, the plaintiff took a personal judgment by default upon certain promissory notes and a decree of foreclosure upon a certain mortgage against the defendants E. W. Skinner, John Hornick, and the Interstate Investment Company, for eighteen thousand, eight hundred and six dollars and twenty-two cents, and two hundred and twenty-eight dollars attorney’s fee, and ten dollars and eighty cents costs. On the-day of October, 1894, the defendants E. W. Skinner and the Interstate Investment Company…

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*3621 *361The record shows that an original notice, in due form, and signed “Joy, Call & Joy, Attorneys for. the Plaintiff,” was delivered to the sheriff to be served. The sheriff’s return shows that on the tenth day of August, 1894, “I served E. W. *362Skinner, and on the 10th day of August, 1894,1 served the Interstate Investment Company, by E. W. Skinner, vice-president of said company, by reading said notice to each one of them personally, and then and there delivering to each one of them a true copy of the same, • — -all done within Woodbury county, Iowa. [Signed] W. C. Davenport, Sheriff of Woodbury…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Boals v. ShulesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
  2. Kitsmiller v. KitchenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1867
  3. Lyon v. VanattaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1872
  4. Wyland v. FrostSupreme Court of Iowa · 1888
  5. Haws v. ClarkSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Matter of Estate of DullSupreme Court of Iowa · 1981
  2. Cummings v. LandesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
  3. Des Moines National Bank v. BatesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
  4. Neeley v. Incorporated Town of MapletonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
  5. Howe v. Sioux CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1917

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